A question I get asked all the time in my Hair N' Heal Program is: "Where does the hair grow first?"  It's a question that brings excitement and hope to many of my clients, especially when they begin to see signs of recovery. However, the answer isn’t always straightforward. Where the hair grows first depends on the type of alopecia you're dealing with, and even within that, it can vary from person to person.

 No Set Rule for Alopecia Universalis and Totalis

For example, alopecia universalis, which is no hair anywhere on your body, it can be in multiple places at different times, there is no set rule as to where the hair comes first. In my clients, I've seen, for example, with those who have alopecia totalis or universalis, it can start on the head. It can start on the arms. It can start on the legs, on the armpits and other areas of your body. It can start with eyelashes and eyebrows and sometimes it's multiple times all over.

So for example, I had one client and she has alopecia totalis and she has totalis for 5 years and she started seeing hair growth on her arms, legs, and armpits and head all at the same time within that eight week period and she was, you know, almost didn't know what to do with herself. She's like I have to start shaving my legs and my armpits now, I never had to, you know, obviously for the last five years and she's like, now I have to, it could be one of those things.

So I had another client who had universals for 20 years and he wanted his beard back. He was very adamant. He's like, all I want is my beard back and it actually, he started with alopecia areata in his beard and it just progressed to universalis and then he was universalis for 20 years and in four weeks he saw hair growth on his head, eyebrows, in his nose hairs, on his legs and arms.

 Hair Growth Starts When the Body Heals

Once your body starts to heal, the energy towards hair growth is able to move forward, if that makes sense because hair growth and growing hair is, you know, takes energy away from everything else that your body is doing and so this is why, when you have an auto-immune disease like alopecia, it is attacking this aspect of your hair follicles and of your hair in general because there's just so much inflammation where all the energy is going to other areas of your body, just to maintain it, right? Just to keep it afloat.

It's like a boat with holes in it, you know, you want to try to cover those holes, but at the same time, there's lots of water coming in. So it's one of those things where you're trying to stay afloat as best as possible and that's what your body is doing. And so once you start healing, then hair can come out of anywhere.

For Diffuse Hair Loss, Hair Comes Back Strategically

Those of you with telogen, effluvium or diffuse where it's all over, or maybe it's just on the crown of your head or androgenetic, then you start to see it right there or everywhere. I had one client, her name is Kim and she had all over hair loss and have lost around 50, 60% of her hair and she saw all these baby hairs just come up where they look like antennas and we would do video coaching calls and she was just, you know, giggling and happy and beside herself, because she saw all these antennas, all these baby hairs coming out and it was just standing up straight. 

So imagine for those of you, who've seen me, it's just the hair and then all these other hairs all around, essentially creating a crown of extra hair, another layer of extra hair. And so that's what she was seeing and she had the fuse. So this was all over shedding, all over hair loss and for those with areata, what I tend to see is that let's say if you have multiple spots, the first spot that you ever got is the last one to fill in. So for example, let's say if you have five spots all over your head. So the last spot that showed up would be the first one to fill in. In the first spot that you ever got would be the last to fill in.

Now, I can't guarantee that it's always going to happen this way but I will say with as many clients as I do see, and as many patterns that I do recognize that this tends to be the way that it happens. And I saw this in myself and I saw this in multiple, multiple clients, men, women, and children. So it's really interesting how the body reacts and how the body is able to, you know, rejuvenate itself in such a small amount of time, but it's also because you have a manual, you have the blueprints and all you have to do is just follow it.

And it's a wonderful thing to see the hair growth and sometimes the hair growth comes with like an itchy scalp and the itchy scalp is what I like to say for, for the women out there who understand, it's kind of like that, um, not everyone's going to have that you scalp with new hair growth, but some of you do, I did. And a lot of my clients do too and that itchy scalp is almost like the hair that grows in from a shaved bikini line. So, you know, you shave your bikini line and by day two or three or four, that hair starts to grow in and it starts to itch like crazy.

If you're a female, you understand why not you've done this. Male, female or other, you, you understand this too. It doesn't necessarily happen with legs, but I do notice that in sensitive areas, like the bikini line, it does happen. And so on my head, this is the way it also happened. And it doesn't happen across the board for everybody, but it can happen. I've seen it in other clients as well, where they experienced the itchiness and we do have remedies for that, natural remedies of course to help you with itching, um, so that you can see that hair growth come in. 

Consistency and Patience: The Key to Healing

Consistency is key and I will say that even today, after more than six, seven years, I still have my hair, even after a pregnancy, even, you know, moving into my forties, I still continue to see hair growth and I still only really have to worry about the gray hairs that, that pop-out nothing else really set for the regular maintenance. 

If there is hope there is possibility for you to get over this hump of losing hair on a continuous basis. And there is an alternative to healing. There is a possibility and it's all in your hands that it really is. 

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